Being an engineer with a technical background, my mission is to make venture capital from technologist to technologist. Having in-depth knowledge to understand the technology involved in a company is one of the most significant gaps often separating founders from investors. 

My journey is about reducing this gap. 

I work as a fractional leader for startups and gaining my way in Venture Capital with Venture Institute by VC Lab. 

My expertise spans in:

 🌍  Geospatial analytics
 🌱  Climate science
 🚲  Mobility
 🌉  Civil Engineering, Infrastructures and Construction


Beyond my professional journey, the great outdoors calls to me. I'm there, whether it's mountain biking trails, catching waves while surfing, scaling peaks in climbing, or exploring snowy terrains through ski mountaineering. For this reason, I am in business to preserve our playground and I work with companies with a positive outcome on the planet.

Eugenio Doglione

From November I went back to my "old job".

Old because my "new job" or what it was supposed to be came after an MBA title, a bloody resing, being a freelance, being hired in a software startup as Chief Commercial Officer, took a VC course in the meanwhile.

But still I realised how something was missing. Back in my university days, I decided to enroll for a civil engineering course because I wanted to do "concrete" thing (please excuse my joke). And that's probably what I was missing in my "new job": creating something that you can see and touch. Something as dirty as the ground I always worked with.

So basically, I made my "old job" my "new job" again. New because I transferred everything I learned for Marketing, GTM and s*t like that to my very unsexy, unglamorous, dirty old job. 

So here I am. Geotechnical engineer by trade, with a slightly unusual backstory. Let's see where this goes.

Civil Engineering | Wastewater and Envirorment | |Tech

When I started my freelance business, I built it over three pillars: autonomy, independence, and at least one day a week in nature.

I've always been passionate about outdoor sports. I could easily say that most of my life has revolved around them. When my daughter was born, I had a brutal wake-up call — it was almost impossible to reconcile a regular 9-to-5 job, a newborn, and being outdoors on weekends.

That's why, when I took the step to leave a salaried job, I decided that my working life should be calibrated around this standard.

One day in nature means many things: when I can, it's at least one day off during the week; if I'm busy, it could be a quick MTB ride in the morning. Sometimes it's none of that — but that's my KPI that something has gone off track.

And so far, the score is good.

In the past few months, I took a break from the LinkedIn game.

Due to my previous role at SWITCH, I massively used LinkedIn for reaching out to people, and despite that actually working, I was exposed for several hours a day to the content published here.

In November, I stepped back as Chief Commercial Officer at SWITCH to dedicate full time to my Civil Engineering consulting business. Since then I barely touched or opened LinkedIn, as I was fed up with it. Luckily, a coincidence — an iOS update was required to log in again on my phone, which I never did, and so I was cut off on mobile too.

What I realise in general is how toxic the culture here is, and how much relief I felt not spending my time reading about some dude's bragging.

But I do recognise how powerful this tool is for talking to people, so right now I am trying to get back in the game. There will be no consensus talk, not grammatically or politically correct, and definitely no "stay consistent", no high conversion headlines.

I will run this experiment and keep you updated xxx

Generally speaking, light-asset enterprise is dead—which is why I think I made a smart move getting back into Civil Engineering (as long as I won't be replaced by a robot).
In my last post, I talked about my decision to return to the Civil Engineering business, despite the world seemingly moving in another direction
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Civil Engineering speaks the language of the heavy-asset economy, and that's exactly why I think we're so far behind in the AI hype cycle.

First: the AI revolution is a heavy-asset economy. You have to BUILD datacenters. You have to BUILD energy infrastructure. There's no cloud without concrete.

Second: Civil Engineering has a unique edge—it certifies safety. And safety certification is very hard to outsource to a machine. You need a third party that can take legal responsibility for failure, and that cannot (yet) be a machine.

The future is physical. Always has been. We just forgot for a decade.

Very interesting reading about how data centres are really built. 

It's a long post, so don't expect quick answers or a TLDR — you have to dive in.
My key takeaways:

- the real bottlenecks are physical: hyperscalers are placing multi-billion dollar capex orders, but actual deployment takes years
 - we can't defy thermodynamics — we'll probably melt the processor before reaching AGI

Two interesting aspects for us geotechnical nerds:

- to reduce land acquisition costs, developers are purchasing acres of swampland. This requires extensive geotechnical study, since the soil there is closer to the marmalade you spread at breakfast than to proper ground. Expect every type of ground improvement intervention (rigid inclusions, stone columns... you name it)
 - increasing computing capacity means denser racks, which translates to higher loads on your slab — and hence more sophisticated structural studies (read: FEM models)

We are so back

Open article: The Datacenter Bible - From Layman to Expert in 100 Pages by open.substack.com

The Datacenter Bible - From Layman to Expert in 100 Pages

Partex NV

Partex is the 1st Digital Pharma that combines real-world data, AI and in-house drug assets to bridge the information asymmetry in healthcare while incentivising patients and playing a crucial role in developing life-saving treatments.

Working with the C-suite on key activities to bring the company to the next level, including strategic acquisitions, hiring the executive team at the group level, Series C fundraising and building/scaling capabilities across organizations.

Chief Of Staff

Kickigai

Kickigai is a community that helps ambitious professionals build meaningful careers in the startup world.

Kickigai's guides, weekly newsletter and coaching allow people in corporate and academic roles to break into the startup world and do work that matters in the most promising healthcare and life sciences startups.

Founder

Clinton Foundation

- Coaching 30+ founders and social entrepreneurs across the entire program
- Facilitating conversation, sharing resources and helping participants advance their Commitments to Action through a structured educational program, group discussions and 1-to-1 office hours.

CGI U mentor

CGI U is a year-round program by the Clinton Foundation that helps develop the next generation of leaders and social entrepreneurs.
It includes high-touch mentorship, funding streams, world-renowned experts and the invitation to the annual global meeting. Project area: health education

CGI U fellow

Innovation Forum

- Supported 100+ early-stage health technology startups with product development, regulatory frameworks, business development, seed/Series A investments and hiring
- In charge of 20+ partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, international firms and government institutions
- Led a team of business development associates to achieve strategic objectives
- Coordinated a global accelerator program, whose portfolio companies have raised more than $300M

Director of Corporate Development

- Designed and executed a business development and sales infrastructure from scratch
- Created new products & services, led the sales department and built an international team
- Started the corporate devolvement department to strategically expand the company's activities and global presence
- Fostered partnerships with industry leaders, SMEs and local organizations to help startup ecosystems evolve

Global Business Development Manager

- Interviewed visionary entrepreneurs and wrote about emerging technologies.
- Created a content strategy at the intersection of science, disruptive technologies, and entrepreneurship

Science & Innovation Writer

Nina Capital

- Evaluated 100+ early-stage startups
- Need-driven analysis of international markets and deep-tech ventures
- Contributed to technical and financial due diligence
- Interviewed portfolio founders and wrote a series of articles about university spin-offs

Analyst

EIT Health

Innovation and healthcare entrepreneurship program based on the Stanford Biodesign methodology and the Lean Startup approach. Topic: health and well-being of medical staff and nurses, in partnership with Essilor. Starting with the identification of 100+ unmet needs, a radiation measurement system has been designed to protect radiologists and surgeons from eye damage.
The program has been organized in collaboration with IESE Business School, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of Coimbra and Oxford University.

StarShip Health Innovation Fellow

CareYou

CareYou is an information management platform for chronic patients to help them manage their lives and their conditions, especially regarding medical non-adherence. It connects patients, doctors and caregivers throughout the entire care journey by providing patients with personalised medically-approved information while giving actionable insights to doctors and caregivers.
Achievements:
- Leading the team from idea to MVP (business development, marketing, fundraising)
- Pioneering value-based healthcare reimbursements among several stakeholders in CH and FR
- International recognition (awards, grants and pitching competitions)

Co-Founder

4DCell

Product development and commercialization of 3D assays for cardiomyocytes seeding and maturation. The proprietary design provides specific cues to cells, enabling better drug-screening tests.
Dealing with the entire development cycle, from A to Z.

Product Manager intern

Medtronic

Main responsibilities:
- Project management (technical, business and regulatory)
- Manage external relationships with potential suppliers
- Coordinate several internal departments and international stakeholders

Interim project leader

Main responsibilities and achievements:
- Characterization of a surface treatment process to increase surface free energy and improve adhesion
- DRM Green Belt certification (Design for Reliability and Manufacturability) and extensive application of several practices
- Ensuring process/product conformity to design specification and regulatory standards

Process Development intern

EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

Design and validation of a shaping procedure for curved photovoltaic epiretinal implants using an injection molding technique. Main tasks:
- Design and fabrication of molds and implants
- Selection of appropriate elastomeric materials, according to adhesion and shape fidelity
- Testing of adhesion performances
- Light and electron microscopy analysis at different production stages and after simulated surgery

Semester project in the Laboratory of Neural Engineering (LNE)

Realization of miniaturized temperature and flow speed sensors to be integrated into a catheter for real-time measuring. Analysis of different techniques viability, cleanroom prototyping, calibration and validation in 2mm diameter catheters. The project was overseen by the Laboratory of Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces (LSBI).

Semester interdisciplinary project

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And for what? A fancy title that pays you to send emails and play politics?!

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I’ll help you land your dream role in the startup world because we need more curious and ambitious people like you who want to build a great career while doing meaningful work.

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I'm a bioengineer by training who left a corporate job to join the startup world.

Over the past decade, I led a global startup accelerator, whose founders have raised over $385M, launched my own healthtech startup to help chronic patients, joined a venture capital firm and recently helped scale a fast-growing company to 400+ employees and €100M raised.

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